What does a senate vote on health care reform cost these days? (Call Orkin . Get Rid Of the Rats!)
Well, if you're Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, the wages of sin just got pretty darned expensive, as Jonathan Karl at ABC News reports: On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for "certain states recovering from a major disaster." The section spends two pages defining which "states" would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that "during the preceding 7 fiscal years" have been declared a "major disaster area." I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been...
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